9-11-2020 But since 2015 Peoples Liberation Army has ramped up recruitment of scientists, and investment in the field as part of its strategy to modernize its military. Now the coronavirus pandemic is showcasing the PLA's growing expertise in medical research, including a major role in developing the coronavirus vaccine that was the first in the world to be approved for restricted use.
“China is definitely trying to leverage the crisis from a PR perspective,” says Abigail Coplin, who studies China’s biotechnology industry at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York.
Medical researcher Major General Chen Wei at the Beijing Institute of Biotechnology — part of the Academy of Military Medical Sciences — led the team that developed the vaccine, which included collaborators from government agencies, universities and the Tianjin-based pharmaceutical company CanSino Biologics….Chen and the Beijing Institute of Biotechnology did not respond to Nature’s request for comment about the vaccine work.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02523-x
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3-2-21 In 1993 and again in 1995 China declared the Wuhan Institute of Biological Products (WIBP)*, the hub of Sinopharm's COVID-19 vaccine development, to be one of eight dual-use BW research facilities under its "national defensive biological warfare R&D program." Although China has denied having an "offensive" biological warfare program since signing the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC), also known as the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC), in 1984, the U.S. State Department in 2005 alleged that "China maintains some elements of an offensive [biological weapon] capability in violation of its BTWC obligations" and repeated the same charges in 2010, 2012, and 2014.
*located next door to Wuhan Inst. of Virology, see map
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The Gates Foundation (classified as non-taxable charity) is committing $5 million to the 2019-nCoV response in China and is already working with a range of Chinese public and private sector partners to accelerate national and international cooperation….
Partners include Sinopharm China National Biotec Group (Owner, 100%: Chinese central government).
https://www.gatesfoundation.org/ideas/media-center/press-releases/2020/01/gates-foundation-commits-10-million-to-global-response-to-2019-ncov
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3-21-2017 Over 100 years the Rockefeller family reportedly invested hundreds of millions dollars in China, extending their focus from medicine-related subjects such as biology, chemistry and physics to a broader version of studies in archaeology, genetics, agriculture, economy, etc.
http://chinaplus.cri.cn/news/china/9/20170321/1789.html
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IBM sets up a service center -- the Bright Star Computer Service Center -- in Beijing to provide installation and maintenance support for users throughout the country.
1984
IBM has more than 50 computers installed or on order. There are four IBM computer installations: the Chinese Academy of Science in Beijing; the Beijing Remote Sensing Institute; the Guangzhou Computer Center of the Ministry of Communications in Guangzhou (Canton); and the Shanghai Shipbuilding Technology Research Institute of the China State Shipbuilding Corporation. https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/china/china_ch2.html
…………………………………………………………………………. The history of the US-based Motorola's presence in China dates back to the late 1980s when, Motorola established a representative office in Beijing in 1987. It exported telecommunications gear and semiconductors to China and employed around 600 people to market its products. https://www.icmrindia.org/casestudies/catalogue/Business%20Strategy2/Motorola-in-China.htm#:~:text=The%20history%20of%20the%20US,people%20to%20market%20its%20products.
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10-17-2013 JPMorgan Sells Chase Manhattan Plaza in NYC to China's Fosun
Fosun, which invests in properties, pharmaceuticals and steel
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-10-18/jpmorgan-selling-chase-manhattan-plaza-in-nyc-to-china-s-fosun#:~:text=JPMorgan%20Sells%20Chase%20Manhattan%20Plaza%20in%20NYC%20to%20China's%20Fosun,-David%20M.&text=Fosun%2C%20which%20invests%20in%20properties,to%20Hong%20Kong's%20stock%20exchange
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6-19-2020 The China Securities Regulatory Commission recently approved JPMorgan Chase's (NYSE:JPM) bid to fully own and operate a futures subsidiary in China. It will reportedly be the first completely foreign-owned futures business in the country. https://www.fool.com/investing/2020/06/19/jpmorgan-will-be-first-foreign-bank-to-fully-own-a.aspx
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3-2-2015 Seventy years ago on March 1, 1945 Franklin Roosevelt assured a war-weary nation that a new era of international peace and democratic government was at hand….Whatever the president’s political objectives, he knew this statement to be false. For 11 days during their meetings at Yalta in the Crimea, the “Big Three”—Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Josef Stalin—had argued intensely about their spheres of influence in the postwar world….
At one point during the negotiations FDR claimed that the differences between Russia and the United States and Britain over Polish independence (plus Czechoslavakia, Rumania, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania—none informed that they were being sold out 100%) were “largely a matter of the use of words.” British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden was appalled. In his memoir, The Reckoning, Eden summarized the U.S. president’s frame of mind: “He was deluding himself.”
Why would FDR try to convince Americans that a paranoid and murderous dictator such as Stalin would allow “free and unfettered elections” in any country he controlled? “I believe he is truly representative of the heart and soul of Russia,” Roosevelt had said after the Tehran Conference, “and I believe that we are going to get along very well with him and the Russian people—very well indeed.” https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/weekly-standard/fdr-at-yalta-walking-with-the-devil
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In February 1928, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs resolved “that the GKK [State Concessions Commission—V.P.] take into account the extraordinary political importance, within the bounds of reason, and meet Harriman halfway in his claims on us so as to avert a break with him and to deprive him of the possibility of prosecuting us.”6 It is not surprising that the final conditions for the dissolution of the agreement proved to be highly favorable for Harriman—the Soviet government pledged to return in the course of 12 years (beginning in 1931) 3.45 million of the 4 million capital that had been expended, paying 7 percent annually on the remaining debt and an additional loan of 1 million dollars from Harriman—the first major American loan to Soviet Russia. The Soviets scrupulously fulfilled this to a large extent will determine our ultimate success in our fight against Hitler.”10 On his part, Harriman also fully realized the historical significance of what had taken place, although he invested it with a somewhat different and more personal meaning. As Robert Meiklejohn, Harriman’s faithful secretary, wrote in his diary, the boss “came back about eleven o’clock from his meeting at the Kremlin looking like the cat that swallowed the mouse….he said that he has accomplished the most important thing he has ever done.” (-Robert Meiklejohn, World War II Diary, Mission to Moscow 1941: WAHP, Special Files, Meiklejohn Files, Cont. 211.)…
In June 1943 during a private lunch for two, the President, having engaged Harriman’s self-esteem, asked him to take on the difficult and important mission of putting right the relationship with Stalin. FDR close-aide and Wall Streeter Henry Hopkins provided other arguments as well: Harriman’s work in London was becoming less important because the work there was already done, while the Moscow post was becoming a priority since it was precisely relations with Moscow, above all, on which the defeat of Japan and the postwar order in the world would depend. https://harriman.columbia.edu/files/harriman/newsletter/Harriman%20Review%20vol.%2014%2C%20nos.%203-4%20Pechatnov.pdf
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-p. 57, ibid. Max May became a director of Ruskombank in 1922, p. 70.
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Soviet Govenment desire Guaranty Trust Company to become fiscal agent in United States for all Soviet operations `-William H. Coombs, reporting to the U.S. embassy in London, June 1, 1920 (U.S. State Dept. Decimal File, 861.51/752). ("Eestibank" was an Estonian bank)…
When gold had to be transferred to the United States it was American International Corporation, Kuhn, Loeb & Co., and Guaranty Trust that requested the facilities and used their influence in Washington to smooth the way. And when it came to recognition we find American firms pleading .with Congress and with the public to endorse the Soviet regime….
It was commercial exploitation of Russia that excited Wall Street, and Wall Street had lost no time in preparing its program. On May 1, 1918 — an auspicious date for Red revolutionaries — the American League to Aid and Cooperate with Russia was established, and its program approved in a conference held in the Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C. The officers and executive committee of the league represented some superficially dissimilar factions. Its president was Dr. Frank J. Goodnow, president of Johns Hopkins University. Vice presidents were the ever active William Boyce Thompson, Oscar S. Straus, James Duncan, and Frederick C. Howe, who wrote Confessions of a Monopolist, the rule book by which monopolists could control society. The Treasurer was George P. Whalen, vice president of Vacuum Oil Company. Congress was represented by Senator William Edgar Borah and Senator John Sharp Williams, of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Senator William N. Calder; and Senator Robert L. Owen, chairman of the Banking and Currency Committee. House members were Henry R. Cooper and Henry D. Flood, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. American business was represented by Henry Ford; Charles A. Coffin, chairman of the board of General Electric Company; and M. A. Oudin, then foreign manager of General Electric. George P. Whalen represented Vacuum Oil Company, and Daniel Willard was president of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. The more overtly revolutionary element was represented by Mrs. Raymond Robins, whose name was later found to be prominent in the Soviet Bureau files and in the Lusk Committee hearings; Henry L. Slobodin, described as a "prominent patriotic socialist"; and Lincoln Steffens, a domestic Communist of note.
In other words, this was a hybrid executive committee; it represented domestic revolutionary elements, the Congress of the United States, and financial interests prominently involved with Russian affairs.
Approved by the executive committee was a program that emphasized the establishment of an official Russian division in the U.S. government "directed by strong men." This division would enlist the aid of universities, scientific organizations, and other institutions to study the "Russian question," would coordinate and unite organizations within the United States "for the safeguarding of Russia," would arrange for a "special intelligence committee for the investigation of the Russian matter," and, generally, would itself study and investigate what was deemed to be the "Russian question." The executive committee then passed a resolution supporting President Woodrow Wilson's message to the Soviet congress in Moscow and the league affirmed its own support for the new Soviet Russia. https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/bolshevik_revolution/chapter_09.htm
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